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“The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.”

Children Use Given Teacher Teaching Objects Active Agents Instruction Principal Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Maria Montessori

“The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.”

Law Subjects Objects Color Surface Principal

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.”

Art Certain Objects Faculty Contemplating Principal

Book:Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion

Source: Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion

“The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.”

Source: Minority Report

“One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.”

Men Three Objects Degrees Superiors Suits Principal Behaviour Breeding Good Breeding

Author:Jonathan Swift

“The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.”

Love Hate Differences Love Is Objects Hatred Lovely Concentration Principal Love Hate Love And Hate

Book:Strictly personal

Source: Strictly personal

“Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.”

Objects Duty Principal Discharge

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.”

People Objects Capacity Lays Excellence Principal Exertion

Author:Samuel Smiles